- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:48:53 +0000 (UTC)
On Sat, 13 Oct 2007, Mihai Sucan wrote: > > > > > > Shouldn't the video API include a way to toggle full screen on/off? > > > This is a rather basic feature of videos. If it will not be > > > available, video sites will hack around missing full screen support. > > > > > > The current spec doesn't define it. > > > > Currently, the spec recommends that user agents provide a way to > > switch the view of the video to full-screen. We can't provide a > > programatic way of doing it because it is too easily abused. (Can you > > imagine if every time you went to a new site, a full-window or > > full-screen advert played?) > > Yep, that's a problem. I was also thinking along the lines of allowing > fullscreen() within non-synthetic event handlers, in a similar fashon to > popups (just like Kornel suggested). Given how often popups are abused today even with those requirements, I hesitate to do this. (Can you imagine if every time you clicked a link to go to a new site, a full-window or full-screen advert played?) > If that's not a desirable solution, then other solutions, which don't > require confirmation, are not easy to find. Indeed (and explicit confirmation is pretty bad UI). -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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